SCENARIST Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

scenarist

noun

Definition of scenarist

as in scriptwriter

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Recent Examples of scenarist Liberal scenarists will be left wondering what if, though, as Congresswoman Katie Porter will end up notching more than 400,000 votes — enough, potentially, to have given Steyer the win had the fellow liberal Democrat dropped out. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026 The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there. — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023 Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split). — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022 McCarthy merely affects sociological seriousness by collaborating with French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, the scenarist of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 social-justice movie A Prophet, a precursor to Hollywood’s blame-mass-incarceration trend. — Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2021

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Noun

Shanghainese scriptwriter Zhang interwove her personal experience into the script, with more than 50% of the dialogue spoken in the Shanghai dialect.

— Jenny S. Li, Variety, 12 June 2026
Undiluted drama, pure cinema and narratives that even the best scriptwriters in Hollywood would struggle to muster up.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 8 June 2026

Definition of scriptwriter

Noun

Tony Rayns, the British writer, festival programmer and screenwriter who spent decades introducing Western audiences to East Asian cinema, has died at 77.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 July 2026
As solely a screenwriter, Helgeland wrote Man on Fire and Green Zone.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 6 July 2026

Definition of screenwriter

Noun

The theater was built by songwriter, dramatist and playwright Arthur Hammerstein to honor his father, Oscar Hammerstein I, and opened as Hammerstein’s Theater in 1927.

— Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.

— Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026

Definition of dramatist

Noun

Inspired by Shakespeare and other great playwrights, his mini-series Fadia deals with honor killings, that darkest of topics, while saying plenty more about society.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 July 2026
The local trend has continued, bolstered by new adaptations by popular playwrights such as Jeffrey Hatcher or Ken Ludwig.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026

Definition of playwright

Noun

Inspired by the sensibility of a tantalizingly idiosyncratic writer-performer, the play offered Greenspan the opportunity to star in a Greenspan-esque work not of his own devising.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Every mortgage article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of the products.

— Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 8 July 2026

Definition of writer

Noun

Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs.

— Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021

Definition of litterateur

Noun

Bring a pen, a notebook, and your curiosity—you’ll be among friends.

— Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2026
Zverev, who won the French Open and is seeking back-to-back Grand Slam titles, uses an insulin pen when needed to jab the top of his thigh during changeovers on court.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026

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